If your teams are using default, self-signed certificates in Istio, you could be putting your business at risk.
Istio is an efficient open source solution for facilitating secure microservices communications. But if your teams are using self-signed certificates to authenticate their workloads, they’re increasing security risks related to inconsistent policy enforcement, untrusted workload authentication and lack of visibility.
Venafi Firefly is a compliant, enterprise-grade workload identity issuer, which helps you overcome the limitations of risky self-signed certificates. Read this technical brief to learn why Venafi Firefly is the ideal choice for compliant PKI and workload authentication in Istio, ensuring consistency and governance for mesh workloads operating across multiple Kubernetes clusters and clouds.
What you'll learn:
- Common challenges using self-signed CAs in Istio service mesh
- Security benefits of using Venafi Firefly to enforce trust and streamline authentication
- Using Venafi Firefly to operationalize Istio to work with zero trust architectures
- Step-by-step description of a real-world attack vector compromising a default Istio setup
- How to secure Istio trust domains with mTLS using cert-manager and Venafi Firefly